
‘The first step to a world war’: Group of North Korean soldiers sent to Russia immediately flee the frontlines
Russia’s plan with Kim Jong Un has been heralded as “the first step to a world war”, but it appears their partnership is off to a rocky start.
Russia’s military is juggling multiple headaches in its gruelling war in Ukraine, with reports now emerging of a wild man hunt for deserted soldiers on the frontlines.
Only, it’s not Russian soldiers this time.
Earlier this year we saw Vladimir Putin travel to North Korea in a bid to strengthen relations with Kim Jong Un.
Both leaders are in the bad books with the West due to their alleged humanitarian offences, and have now loosely banded together to meet mutual goals.
In the months after Putin’s visit, reports of North Korean soldiers being flown over to the Ukrainian frontlines began to filter through the world press.
The Kremlin immediately moved to squash these rumours, as the involvement of a designated hostile state in a foreign war would have much larger consequences.
But new findings from Ukrainian public broadcaster Suspilne this week have revealed almost two dozen North Korean soldiers have fled their ranks and are now running free.
The desertion has ignited a frantic search by Kremlin forces to locate them.
North Koreans are generally barred from ever leaving their hermit kingdom, which imposes strict martial law against even the slightest signs of dissent. Part of the clampdown is to suppress information of the outside world so that civilians will never be enticed by the progress and freedom of the developed world.
Vladimir Putin Russia has been in bed with North Korea Kim Dynasty for several years. Both enforce anti-freedom ideologies, forcing their axis of evil dictatorship on innocent people that simply want to live free of their tyranny.
